Hannah Schillinger
“field work”
World premiere
August 06 & 07, 2025
20.30 H
HochX Theater and Live Art
22,- EUR / 12,- EUR / 30,- EUR supporting price
Barrier-free
Hannah Schillinger's works deal with contemporary themes such as ecology, virtuality and activism. In her new production “field work”, which celebrates its world premiere as part of TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA, she and performer Aaron Lang address the topic of European agricultural field work – viewed from the perspective of contemporary dance.
With a kaleidoscopic view, “field work” explores the connections between agricultural work and performance practice: physical work, rhythm, ritual, cooperation and the question of social class are at the center. In a poetic and surreal landscape between sculptural stage elements and digital simulation, a space is created in which nature, man and technology move towards a new balance.
With its queer and feminist approach to Alpine culture and folklore, the piece breaks with conventional images, transfers them into new contexts and reimagines them for the future. “field work” thus creates a multi-layered world in which past and future intertwine and a new way of thinking about cultural heritage becomes possible.
Hannah Schillinger's works transition seamlessly between dance, theater and visual art. In her practice, a metamodern body is the starting point for investigating the expression and materiality of experience and imagination in relation to space and time. She works with choreographic arrangements that she calls “virtual sculptures” and develops compositions based on quantum physical principles.
Schillinger trained at the IWANSON International School in Munich and at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam, where she also danced for the ICK Amsterdam company. She completed her master's degree in choreography at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Ernst Busch / HZT Berlin. In addition to her own work, she has assisted at Theater Bremen and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and is part of the studio collective “studio 2.2” with Meg Stuart, Tarik Burnash, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Roger Sala Reyner, Igor Dobricic, Descha Daemgen, Louise Hojer, Jule Flierl and Ixchel Mendoza in Berlin.
Concept, choreography, dance: Hannah Schillinger
Co-choreography, dance: Aaron Lang
Sound: slowfoam
Stage, costume: Louis Caspar Schmitt
Lights: Vito Walter
Production management: Laura Manz
PR: Simone Lutz
Partners: JOINT ADVENTURES - Walter Heun, HochX Theater und Live Art, Choreographisches Centrum Heidelberg
Support: Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat, Debütförderung Tanz, Bayerischer Landesverband für zeitgenössischen Tanz with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse München, Choreographisches Centrum Heidelberg, DOCKART Berlin